Word: friction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suspected "dirty bomb" plot--should be given an attorney and other legal rights. The Pentagon relented just before a filing deadline in a Supreme Court challenge to Hamdi's detention. Justice has also pushed to have the detainees in Guantanamo charged and given lawyers more quickly. Another source of friction, a former Justice official tells TIME, is the Pentagon's refusal to let FBI agents question two of the three "enemy combatants" being held in the continental...
...Crimson, tapering its workouts in order to have additional energy at race time. Also like last year, the Quakers were smoother gliding through the water—previously the result of a more aptly timed shave, this go-around thanks to the speed-enhancing body suits that reduce friction as a swimmer cuts through the water...
...bequest to Harvard. Professors would teach men in Harvard Yard in the morning, then walk down to Radcliffe Yard for afternoon classes with the women. Women were housed separately and, for fear of what might take place in the stacks, women were barred from Lamont Library until 1967. Whatever friction existed in the literal sense between Harvard men and Radcliffe women before that time, the two institutions were constantly rubbing up against each other as they sorted out just what, exactly, their relationship should...
...brilliant writer make her an ace detective, namely, her quick wit and her psychological acuity. Barron's cause is also aided by her deft marshaling of historical detail--the textiles alone (Sprigged muslin! Bombazine!) are worth the price of admission--and, of course, a dash of genuine erotic friction between Jane and the roguish Lord Harold. Barron is scrupulously faithful to the historical record, so we know that Jane will never actually get married. But shouldn't we let her--and Barron and ourselves--have a little fun along...
...Finneran) is not averse to wanting power and not afraid of using that power,” he says. “Now, having a governor who is used to making a decision and having it implemented—I think it creates some friction...